[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "i40e: fix an uninitialized variable bug" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    i40e: fix an uninitialized variable bug

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 16:18:02 +0300
Subject: i40e: fix an uninitialized variable bug

commit 1c306f7f62a38ee5f05f0ee994dfe82d654cf47c upstream.

We removed this initialization but it is required.  Let's put it back.

Fixes: 895106a577c4 ('i40e: trivial fixes')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c
index 9b987cc..a915030 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ i40e_status i40e_add_sd_table_entry(struct i40e_hw *hw,
 	struct i40e_hmc_sd_entry *sd_entry;
 	bool dma_mem_alloc_done = false;
 	struct i40e_dma_mem mem;
-	i40e_status ret_code;
+	i40e_status ret_code = I40E_SUCCESS;
 	u64 alloc_len;

 	if (NULL == hmc_info->sd_table.sd_entry) {
--
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